Microsoft Certification Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 172 188
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 130 126 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.81% 1.47% 1.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.87% 3.57% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 115 93 127
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £45,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,359 3,530 4,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.93% 41.07% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 1,621 3,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -6 49 £47,500 +11.76% 25
Hampshire -10 45 £29,500 -37.89% 5
Berkshire +30 27 £47,500 -7.32% 16
Kent -11 17 £30,000 - 8
Buckinghamshire -21 12 £67,500 +92.86% 5
Oxfordshire -17 10 £32,500 - 4
Surrey -52 9 £49,500 +10.00% 5
East Sussex -12 5 £40,000 -32.20% 2
Middlesex +39 2 £65,000 - 4
West Sussex -23 1 £31,000 -38.00% 1
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (18.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.92%) Apache
3 9 (6.92%) nginx
4 5 (3.85%) WordPress
5 1 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 48 (36.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.54%) PTC Creo
2 2 (1.54%) Windchill
3 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 72 (55.38%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (45.38%) Azure
3 23 (17.69%) Entra ID
4 15 (11.54%) AWS
5 9 (6.92%) Azure Functions
5 9 (6.92%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (6.92%) Serverless
6 8 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (6.15%) SaaS
7 6 (4.62%) Google Workspace
7 6 (4.62%) IaaS
8 5 (3.85%) GitHub
9 4 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.08%) Mimecast
9 4 (3.08%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.54%) GCP
11 2 (1.54%) PaaS
12 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.77%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 34 (26.15%) Firewall
2 28 (21.54%) DNS
3 21 (16.15%) LAN
4 20 (15.38%) DHCP
5 19 (14.62%) WAN
6 17 (13.08%) VPN
7 16 (12.31%) VLAN
8 10 (7.69%) VoIP
9 9 (6.92%) TCP/IP
10 8 (6.15%) SSL
11 6 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (4.62%) Wireless
11 6 (4.62%) WLAN
12 5 (3.85%) Internet
13 3 (2.31%) Asterisk PBX
13 3 (2.31%) LTE
13 3 (2.31%) VSAT
14 1 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.31%) Power BI
4 2 (1.54%) Power Query
5 1 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Git
2 4 (3.08%) JIRA
General
1 93 (71.54%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.00%) Finance
3 11 (8.46%) Retail
4 10 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.92%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.38%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.85%) French Language
8 5 (3.85%) Multimedia
9 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.31%) Electronics
11 2 (1.54%) Swedish Language
12 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (30.77%) IT Support
2 32 (24.62%) Analyst
3 22 (16.92%) Support Analyst
3 22 (16.92%) Support Technician
4 20 (15.38%) 1st Line Support
4 20 (15.38%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 17 (13.08%) IT Analyst
5 17 (13.08%) IT Support Analyst
6 16 (12.31%) IT Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) Support Engineer
8 13 (10.00%) Senior
9 10 (7.69%) Operations Manager
10 9 (6.92%) NOC Manager
11 8 (6.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 8 (6.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
11 8 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support
11 8 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
11 8 (6.15%) Developer
12 7 (5.38%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) .NET
2 7 (5.38%) Web Services
3 5 (3.85%) CSS
3 5 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (0.77%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.77%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Driving Licence
2 7 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.54%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.54%) PKI
4 2 (1.54%) Replication
4 2 (1.54%) SCADA
4 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.77%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.62%) Windows
2 32 (24.62%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.00%) Linux
4 10 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.38%) Mac OS
6 5 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.77%) Android
8 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.92%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (25.38%) Customer Service
3 29 (22.31%) Mentoring
4 28 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (16.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 19 (14.62%) ITIL
8 16 (12.31%) High Availability
9 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (10.00%) ITSM
11 11 (8.46%) Project Delivery
12 10 (7.69%) Cloud Security
12 10 (7.69%) ERP
12 10 (7.69%) Software Engineering
13 9 (6.92%) API Management
13 9 (6.92%) CI/CD
13 9 (6.92%) CRM
13 9 (6.92%) Kalman Filter
13 9 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (6.92%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.31%) SQL
2 13 (10.00%) Python
3 12 (9.23%) PowerShell
4 10 (7.69%) C#
5 9 (6.92%) Ruby
6 6 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.85%) R
8 3 (2.31%) Bash
8 3 (2.31%) Perl
9 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 70 (53.85%) Degree
2 33 (25.38%) A+ Certification
3 30 (23.08%) Azure Certification
4 13 (10.00%) MCSE
5 12 (9.23%) AWS Certification
6 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
6 11 (8.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (7.69%) HNC
7 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 9 (6.92%) SC Cleared
9 8 (6.15%) DBS Check
9 8 (6.15%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (4.62%) CCNA
10 6 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (4.62%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (3.85%) MCSA
12 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (2.31%) HND
13 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (6.15%) GDPR
3 7 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (5.38%) QA
4 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.54%) NCSC
6 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (25.38%) Active Directory
2 27 (20.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (16.15%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.92%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.85%) Squid
5 5 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.62%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (3.08%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.54%) SCCM
4 2 (1.54%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 2 (1.54%) WSUS
5 1 (0.77%) Autotask
Vendors
1 128 (98.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (24.62%) VMware
3 18 (13.85%) Veeam
4 11 (8.46%) Cisco
5 9 (6.92%) Oracle
6 8 (6.15%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.38%) Apple
7 7 (5.38%) HubSpot
7 7 (5.38%) SonicWALL
8 6 (4.62%) Datto
8 6 (4.62%) Google
9 5 (3.85%) Citrix
10 4 (3.08%) Acronis
10 4 (3.08%) N-able
11 3 (2.31%) Dell
12 2 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (1.54%) PTC
12 2 (1.54%) Symantec
13 1 (0.77%) ConnectWise
13 1 (0.77%) Draytek